Useful Technology sites
| Wordle |
http://www.wordle.net/ |
This makes word clouds from text. |
| Tagxedo |
http://www.tagxedo.com/app.html |
This is another word cloud tool with more options. |
| More ideas |
http://www.redlineconsultingllc.com/ |
Carole Redline's website |
| Storybird |
http://storybird.com/ |
Children can create and tell a story using their own artwork or photos or others' artwork. |
| Kerpoof |
www.kerpoof.com |
Students can make a story, movie or draw. It looks like it takes some skill...perhaps too hard for primary grades. |
| bibme |
http://www.bibme.org/ |
Students put in the info and create a bibliography page for their report. What a time saver while still teaching the concept of citing works. |
| Grouping with Sketchy |
http://www.autismgames.com.au/game_gobject.html |
This game was designed for children with autism but could be used with preschoolers since it is a grouping game. |
| Meegenius |
http://www.meegenius.com/ |
Primary grade stories that can be read to you or a child could read. They can be personalized to use familiar names. |
| Create a graph |
http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/ |
This creates charts, bar graphs or pie charts. This could be used in social studies or math. |
| animoto |
www.animoto.com |
For older kids they can put together slides and pictures to tell a story. |
| Safeshare |
http://www.safeshare.tv/ |
Change the address from YouTube to a Safeshare address |
| YouTube Downloader |
http://download.cnet.com/YouTube-Downloader/3000-2071_4-10647340.html |
Download a YouTube video to your laptop |
| Diigo |
www.diigo.com |
Bookmarking tool plus a way to connect with colleagues and share tech info and lesson plans. |